And now I’m all in my feels about just how joined at the hip they truly must be … they hold hands so much through the series just for the sake of friendship can you imagine how much they hold hands when they’re more secure in their relationship?
no because the interaction between them must be off the charts… they both take such a comfort in the other’s physical presence, as you say holding hands and of course all of the bed sharing and other entirely unnecessary but extremely married little touches that they share throughout the series (think peeta rubbing at a tense spot on her back when she can’t figure out the spile in the quell, and katniss stroking his hair back when they’re in the middle of a war zone underneath the capitol).
so when they’re actually together together, i think that they’re almost always touching.
he loops an arm around her waist while they walk through town, while she slips her hand into his pocket. on the couch at home, they either sit curled up together or with her legs across his lap as he sketches. sometimes, if he hasn’t slept great the night before she’ll sit with his head on her lap and play with his hair until he dozes off. he often returns the favor, running his blunt nails up and down her bare shoulders and back while she sprawls on her tummy on their bed. they’re not kissy in public, but in crowded places she likes to either hold his hand or he’ll walk close behind her with a hand somewhere on her just so she’s reminded of his presence. however in the comfort of their own home they are VERY kissy, greeting each other with little pecks to say hello and goodbye (katniss goes into a foul mood if he doesn’t kiss her goodbye in the mornings, even if he hates to wake her when she’s sleeping peacefully).
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Titans has forced me to watch Dick fight multiple opponents with no suit no weapons just skill and I'm Gone. The pure strength and power he exuded I'm ☠️ Disrespectfully thinking about him just throwing me against/on the nearest surface and just fucking me through it
……head empty. someone take me to the nearest emergency room im going to pass away. im going directly to bed. im opening the bottom drawer of my bedside table.
im thinking of Dick and his hand to hand combat skills and his ability to improvise on the fly. im also now thinking about his strength and power and his beautifully thick arms.
I’m thinking about him being strong enough to hold you down and fuck you through every single orgasm you have. Refusing to let you come down from one high before spiralling into another. Thinking of him listening to you cry and sob and beg and getting harder because he’s nothing but a sadist.
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Got the brainworms.
A Nest Torn Empty, the month Mike is away. There are some flavors of trauma that might interestingly suit that scenario. These are just little brainstorms, don't feel like. Compelled to use them lmao
One might fit the idea of being medicalized, poked and prodded. Psych test after psych test, evaluations and therapy as it was in the eighties, possibly by particularly shitty professionals who try to go the therapy version of "bad cop" and INSIST mike is lying just to see if he breaks?
Another might be someone deciding to enact some kind of revenge on Evan's behalf. This could go any number of ways, but I think it would be interesting if someone who has been in Evan's position before decided to try and create some version of "a taste of his own medicine" for Mike, though obviously without the near death bit bc of plotlines etc.
And then there are less obvious things that kind of get left out. Being torn from your family all of the sudden is traumatic. He doesn't know what's going to happen to him, or to his brother and sister. Whether or not he's in another abusive place, the sheer amount of differences could throw him off. All the rules are different, all the people are different. He probably feels very isolated.
(You're giving me ideas for the au where Mike thinks Evan died after they're split up, lmao)
In terms of reactions, I think there might be more of a shutdown than his earlier behavior. If nothing he's doing yields ANY reaction– good or bad– then why bother? I think a lot of it would just lead him to be very tired by the end of it all.
Final aspect that I think would be interesting: as the kids grow up and actually learn to talk about the shitty upbringing they had, I think Mike's month away might fall to the wayside for a while. Nobody else thinks about it; it doesn't come up.
Eventually, though, it does need to be addressed. Maybe it kind of pales in comparison to the bite itself, but the experience still hurt.
(Or disregard all of this! Just brainstorming dhfjdkdksk)
okay first off I think it's so funny that I have to outsource all my "how would Mike react to xyz trauma" stuff to you,, like how dare you know him so well and have so many tantalizing Mike thoughts /honorary /pos
i think my initial idea was more along the lines of like,, Mike keeps insisting that he didn't mean to hurt Evan, but the more the psychiatrists poke and prod and question him, the less certain Mike is.
All of Mike’s claims that "I didn't know that would happen" and "i didn't mean for him to get hurt" and "i didn't want to kill him" are met with stuff like. "So there's no history of you hurting him?" "So Evan hasn't been put in danger by your actions before?" "So this behavior is a recent thing that came out of nowhere?" And just like. General questions that, whether asked out malice or from people genuinely trying to understand if Mike is a danger to himself or others, only serve to highlight in Mike’s mind that maybe he is inherently evil, because every time he swears that he didn't mean it, he's just met with a reminder of all the times he has in fact hurt Evan and others before and with the reminder that he could do it again at any time.
The idea that there are certain "professionals" there who just insist that Mike is lying about not meaning for the Bite in an effort to get him to cave and break???? Oooooh boy. Angsty, I love it. Maybe as time passes and Mike gets more and more frustrated, his "medical treatment" and "psychiatric professionals" just get worse and worse as a result of his lashing out. It starts out with the psychiatrists just trying to be thorough and get a detailed understanding of what happened, and the mere nature of their questioning frays Mike as he interprets their questions as them not believing him. He tells himself that he's crazy for feeling so attacked by them when they're professionals trained to help people, but like. It doesn't make the problem go away. Mike starts lashing out as he feels like they don't believe him. And his lashing out is ofc seen as signs of hostility, leading to worse and worse "treatment" (in both sense of the term), and leading to him being placed with awful "professionals" who blatantly tell him to his face now that he's lying about not meaning to hurt Evan to get Mike to break.
And the whole experience just, like, shreds every sense of faith Mike had in his own judgment. He doesn't know what to do or think anymore, and it doesn't matter anyway, because no matter WHAT he does or thinks it has the same result of people just. Making him feel cruel and evil, like he'll inevitably hurt someone, like he's a monster and has always been a monster and is trying to manipulate everyone here in the psych facility and everyone he's ever known into thinking he's NOT a monster for his own personal gain.
Worst thing is that in Mike’s eyes, these are strangers who don't even know him or know anything about him, and yet they don't NEED to know him to know that he's evil. Mike coming to the conclusion that theres something so fundamentally broken about him that people can PHYSICALLY SEE IT, he reeks of it, it's the first thing people see when they look at him, the ONLY thing people see. People don't even need to know him to see straight into the evil in his heart. Which is only furthered when he goes back home and all these classmates he never talked to before are calling him a murderer, not to mention Liz's ambivalent reaction to seeing him again.
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